Palmyra Atoll

updated Mon. March 19, 2018

New research reveals the removal of rodents from Palmyra by Island Conservation, The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011 also got rid of the disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito. By: Jan TenBruggencate. Sometimes -- too rarely -- happy things happen by accident.

What changed? In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy and Island Conservation began a multi-year campaign to systematically eradicate all of Palmyra Atoll's 40,000 rats, an invasive species and the island's only year-round mammal inhabitants. But the mosquitoes, in theory,ÃÂ ...

Invasive species damage ecosystems, economies, agriculture, and human health. You can apply these simple recommendations to help stop the dispersal of invasive species. 1. Care for your pets. Many invasive species have been traced back to releases of pets into the wild. Only adopt a pet if you areÃÂ ...

Like most islands visited by humans over the past few hundred years, Palmyra Atoll was once home to tens of thousands of introduced rats. But an intensive campaign by biologists from the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has rendered the island rat-free.

Palmyra AtollKEVIN LAFFERTYOne thousand miles south of Hawaii, the Palmyra Atoll, a horseshoe-shaped chain of islets, is about as isolated as you can imagine, says Erin Mordecai, a biologist at Stanford University who has visited the islets to conduct ecology research. "It's really, really remote and hasÃÂ ...

A drone's-eye view of Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; 2. ... "Hidden Pacific" documents the Palmyra Atoll, 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu; the Wake Atoll, 2,000 miles southeast of Japan; and the Rose Atoll, 185 miles east of American ... Wreckage of a World War IIaircraft on Palmyra Atoll; 8.

With its lush rainforest and deep turquoise waters surrounded by some of the most intact coral reefecosystems in the world, Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge seems like a perfect island paradise, but it wasn't always so perfect. In 2011, the tiny atoll 1,000 miles from Hawai'i was overrun with more thanÃÂ ...

One of these coral reefs is at Palmyra Atoll, an island south of Hawaii. Every year, scientists go back to the island armed with underwater cameras and scuba diving gear. They take thousands of photos of the corals, covering an area of more than 17,000 square feet. In the lab, the photos are then stitchedÃÂ ...

Scientists are excited about the ramifications after removal of rodents from Palmyra also got rid of the disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito. By Jan TenBruggencate / March 14, 2018. Sometimes -- too rarely -- happy things happen by accident. On the remote island of Palmyra, directly south of Hawaii, the removal of ratsÃÂ ...

On the face of the note, the captain of the plane has written: "Flew from Guadal Canal/Tarawa/Canton Island/Palmyra Atoll/Honolulu -S.L. Poquerane, Capt. ... Palmyra Atoll, located midway between Hawaii and American Samoa, was the site of the Palmyra Atoll Naval Air Station between 1941 and 1947.

"There's a level of organization that the human eye can't really catch." To understand how corals are spaced, he and his colleagues swam over the reefs at the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, which lies about 1,000 miles south of Oahu, Hawaii. They photographed more than 44,000 coral coloniesÃÂ ...

With its lush rainforest and deep turquoise waters surrounded by some of the most intact coral reefecosystems in the world, Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge seems like a perfect island paradise, but it wasn't always so perfect. In 2011, the tiny atoll 1,000 miles from Hawai'i was overrun with more thanÃÂ ...

Alex Wegmann. Alex Wegmann is the Palmyra Program Director for The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii. The Nature Conservancy is co-owner and co-manager with the U.S. fish & Wildlife Service of Palmyra Atoll. Read more. Latest Articles ÃÂ· Full Archive ÃÂ· Trump's Monumental Mistake In The PacificÃÂ ...

One of these coral reefs is at Palmyra Atoll, an island south of Hawaii. Every year, scientists go back to the island armed with underwater cameras and scuba diving gear. They take thousands of photos of the corals, covering an area of more than 17,000 square feet. In the lab, the photos are then stitchedÃÂ ...

A snorkeler approaches a school of convict tang fish in the shallow waters of Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, which is part of the larger Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. (Ian Shive/USFWS via The New York Times). Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share viaÃÂ ...

HONOLULU -- Terry Kerby has been piloting deep-seasubmarines for four decades, but nothing prepared him for the devastation he observed recently on several underwater mountains called seamounts in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. "It was a biological desert," he said. Where normally fish and crabsÃÂ ...

A reef biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who runs the Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium, Caselle says having fishingboats catching reef sharks within 12 miles of the island would throw off kilter what is now a rare predator-dominated ecosystem. One high-profile discovery at PalmyraÃÂ ...

Research has shown that restoration of native island ecosystems is vital to the health of surrounding marine ecosystems. Lehua Island is no exception; where the water meets the shore two very different yet connected environments interact. The health of one is crucial to the health of the other. ConnectivityÃÂ ...

Shark populations rely on healthy reefs, but with so much damage to our reefs in recent years, a new study is focusing on how to protect sharks. The results from an eight-year shark tagging project at Palmyra Atoll, an isolated national wildlife refuge 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, has established a muchÃÂ ...

A consortium of scientists studied a healthy population of grey reef sharks on Palmyra Atoll. Credit: Darcy Bradley. Many shark populations around the world are known to have declined over the past several decades, yet marine scientists lack important baseline information about what a healthy sharkÃÂ ...

Halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa lies a group of small islands and inlets. Among them is Palmyra Atoll, an almost 5-square-mile ring of coral. The lagoons of Palmyra -- part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument -- provide sanctuary for a variety of mobile species includingÃÂ ...

... Place on Earth: Arriving to Palmyra Atoll. Thu, May 12. When the 'On Assignment' team arrived to Palmyra Atoll, they more than quadrupled the population. Share Video; facebook ÃÂ· twitter ÃÂ· E-mail; Embed. Copy this code to your website or blog.

Palmyra Atoll, a refuge for seabird breeding colonies and coral reef communities, is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. The national monument received a big boost this week, when U.S. President Obama announced he was expanding its borders, turning the remote area into theÃÂ ...

... what the world is. In other words, self-discovery and self-creation are key. So the question we began with is the question we must go into in order to navigate the crises we face: Who am I, really, and what is this world, really, and how shall I live in it? Featured photo: Plant life on Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands.

One of these coral reefs is at Palmyra Atoll, an island south of Hawaii. Every year, scientists go back to the island armed with underwater cameras and scuba diving gear. They take thousands of photos of the corals, covering an area of more than 17,000 square feet. In the lab, the photos are then stitchedÃÂ ...

With the help of computer scientists and engineers at their university, Dr. Sandin and his team created their digital maps using more than 39,000 photos of about 44,000 coral colonies living on reefs at Palmyra Atoll near Hawaii. In analyzing digital reconstructions of about 1,000 square feet each, theyÃÂ ...

There is one research station on Palmyra Atoll at the Nature Conservancy and the US fish and Wildlife site and it's really the only marine station that exists anywhere in the world on the pristine coral reef. There's nobody at Palmyra to speak of except the researchers. So it's a unique place. And by allowingÃÂ ...

Shark populations rely on healthy reefs, but with so much damage to our reefs in recent years, a new study is focusing on how to protect sharks. The results from an eight-year shark tagging project at Palmyra Atoll, an isolated national wildlife refuge 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, has established a muchÃÂ ...